Bread And Wine-Ignazio Silone-Signet Classic

Originally published in Switzerland in 1936, Bread and Wine tells the story of Pietro Spina, a revolutionary who returns (disguised as a priest) from fifteen years of exile to organize the peasants of his native Abruzzi into a resistance movement against the rising fascism of Mussolini's Italy. Ignazio Silone was the pseudonym of Italian author Secondo Tranquilli, a founding member of the Communist Party of Italy, and the novel's warning about the rise of a totalitarian regime resonates with renewed relevance today.

Publisher: Signet Books     2005 edition     304 pages

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